This fine ceramic jug commemorates the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1887-89 and Stanley along with his officers, E. M. Bartelot, W. Bonney, A. J. ...

An early travel account to St Helena, Java and China. Including plates of St Helena, Java (2) and Batavia amongst others. First edition. 8vo, illu...

'A fascinating work, full of interesting detail, as are all Leake's works. Particular attention is paid to Mycenae and Tiryns, and the plates incl...

The youngest daughter of William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV) and the actress Mrs Jordan, the author married the colonial administrator Vi...

By paddle steamer up the Irrawaddy river. Crawfurd was sent on an envoy mission to Burma in 1826, by Hastings's successor Lord Amherst, in the afte...

. 'In 1783 the Antelope commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, ran onto a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a previously unexplored group, and was w...

One of the key figures in the Hungarian War of Independence (1848-49), György Klapka (1820-1892) went on to be a member of the Hungarian Parliamen...

One of 160 copies. The first scholarly work by the historian and archaeoloist Alexandre, comte de Laborde (1773-1842). Magnificently illustrated, t...

A fine copy of Allen's River Niger expedition in the preferred deluxe binding.The British Niger Expedition of 1841 was commissioned by the British...

Winstanley was a British officer of the Queen's Own Hussars who entered Ethiopia from the west around 1880. Travelling from the frontier market to...

Inscribed presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to 'Albert Hutton Esq., from his affectionate friend, G Melly' on the upper...

Ensor was engaged in the survey of Wady Milkh or the Inalienable Valley for the proposed line of a railway to Darfoor. Since the reign of Achmat B...

Mockler-Ferryman's account of the expedition led by Major MacDonald in 1889 to investigate complaints about the Royal Nigerian Company. Includes a...

3 volumes, large octavo. Original red cloth, spines lettered in gilt, armorial illustrations to front boards in gilt.

Junker charted the course of the Congo and its tributaries during his decade in Central Africa. Born of German parents in Moscow, he was influence...

Rare and attractive commemorative printing.Trifold (19 x 9.3 cm approx) extending to 19 x 27 cm., engraved title, partly coloured map, a fine exam...

Chase (1823-1860) was stationed in Burma from 1847 until his death in 1860. He joined the 46th Bengal Native Infantry in India in March 1842, arr...

Hakluyt Society First Series, No. 5.Accounts of the voyages of Cabot, Davis, Frobisher, and others, drawn chiefly from the works of Hakluyt, Purch...

Includes much on bear hunting, trapping, and natural history, as well as having some important content on salmon fishing. Published in the same y...

Having served with the East India Company, Alexander (1803-1885) was aide-de-camp to Colonel Kinneir, British envoy to Persia, and was present wit...